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1. Proposed Treatment
A. Project Description:
The Alma Taylor Vegetation Management Project is a multi-year project designed to
promote aspen regeneration, promote age-class diversity, and manage lodgepole pine
density within the 11,431 acre area of the Alma Taylor Plateau. This area is presently
targeted by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Forest Service biologists to restore
critical mule deer and moose habitat; a decline in habitat has been attributed to the
significant loss of aspen stands, the lack of aspen regeneration caused by conifer
encroachment, and lodgepole pine densities. The treatments are necessary to restore this
area to historic aspen dominated landscapes and to encourage structural diversity in
lodgepole pine communities. These treatments will also improve northern goshawk
foraging and nesting habitat.
The project will be carried out through a combination of vegetation treatment methods,
including prescribed fire and mechanical treatments. These treatments will occur over
multiple years.
B. Project Objectives:
• Improve summer range habitat for mule deer.
• Improve the quality of moose winter range.
• Improve northern goshawk foraging and nesting habitat.
• Reduce conifer encroachment into aspen communities.
• Establish a mosaic of wildlife openings to improve forage production.
• Promote aspen regeneration.
• Promote the development of large trees.
• Reduce the risk of large scale, high intensity, stand replacing wildfires.
• Protect downstream municipal watershed values.
• Reduce overall fuel loading in the project area to promote firefighter and public
safety.
C. Background of the Project
The Alma Taylor area has a history of watershed and wildlife emphasis. The Vernal
Ranger District Land Use Plan of the mid 1970s (pp. 96-97) noted the need to maintain a
stable watershed and manage key winter range and elk calving areas. Portions of the
Alma Taylor Plateau were noted as having suppressed stands of lodgepole pine, with
85% of the plateau area containing pole size or smaller lodgepole and lacking in
understory vegetation due to the dense characteristic of the stands (pp. 105-106).
In 1986, the Alma Taylor Plateau Project was approved, allowing for a cooperative
project between the Forest Service and the Utah Department of Wildlife Recourses
(UDWR) to manage the plateau for improved big game habitat. A combination of
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burning and timber harvest to treat stagnated lodgepole pine was identified as a means to
increase wildlife forage (Alma Taylor Plateau Project Environmental Assessment,
approved 8/21/86). Additional information is given in Section 3 (Collaboration) of this
document.
In January 2005, a vegetation analysis of existing conditions of aspen and lodgepole pine
communities was completed for the Alma Taylor Plateau (Underhill, 2005). The analysis
included vegetation structure, fire history, and past silvicultural treatments. An
interdisciplinary team approach was used in completing the analysis and included
expertise from silviculture, wildlife, fire, and ecology specialists. The analysis
recommended mechanical and prescribed fire treatments to promote aspen regeneration.
The analysis identified stands at risk for aspen loss due to encroachment, lack of
disturbance, and lack of variety in age class. Aspen in the watershed acts as a fuel break,
decreasing wildfire intensity and helping to reduce the effects of wildfire damage to the
Ashley Creek municipal watershed.
A Decision Memo for the project was signed by Michael T. Elson, Acting District Ranger
on December 20, 2006.
D. Planned Treatments
The Alma Taylor Vegetation Management Project consists of several different
mechanical treatments and prescribed burning. Approximately 3,466 acres will be
treated, including up to 1,089 acres that may be prescribe burned following a mechanical
treatment. Table 1 summarizes the acres, projected harvest volume, and cost of each
treatment.
E. Implementation Schedule
Implementation will occur over several years. Mechanical treatments designed to prepare
treatment areas for prescribed burning will dominated during the early years of
implementation; prescribed burning will dominate in the later years of implementation.
Figure 1 spatially illustrates the tentative treatment schedule. Table 2 provides additional
information on the tentative implementation schedule for the project.
Implementation will be completed on approximately 269 acres in FY 2010. The
estimated cost of completing this work is $65,910. Additional details are provided in
Table 3.
F. Monitoring
Monitoring will include regeneration surveys after harvesting (third and fifth year exams)
and, as part of the Forest’s weed management program, noxious weed control (initial
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control and follow-up maintenance). A burn plan will be completed prior to any
prescribed fire activity conducted in the project area; one component of the burn plan will
include a monitoring plan to determine the effectiveness of the fuels treatments. Also,
photo points will be established throughout the project area to compare pre-treatment
conditions to post-treatment conditions over time.
Table 1 - Summary of Treatments
Treatment
Commercial Thin Total
Fuelbreak Total
Group Selection Total
Optional Burn Area Total
Partial Cut Total
Prescribe Burn Total
Shelterwood Total
Total
Acres
265
810
1081
290
231
1794
84
4555
Total
Harvest
Volume
(CCF)
Total Cost
4079.34
$153,464.77
3384.95
$388,341.66
6852.31
$257,783.90
0.00
$36,250.00
1155.00
$43,451.10
0.00
$194,130.00
1071.00
$40,291.02
16542.60 $1,113,712.45
Table 2 - Implementation Schedule
Planned
Implementation Acres
2008 Total
111
2009 Total
631
2010 Total
269
2011 Total
1086
2012 Total
390
2013 Total
843
2014 Total
1225
4555
Total
Total
Harvest
Volume
(CCF)
Total Cost
1769.34
$66,562.57
1153.85
$304,407.68
1752.00
$65,910.24
3791.77
$175,276.39
4547.49
$171,076.57
3528.15
$177,354.00
0.00
$153,125.00
16542.60 $1,113,712.45
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Figure 1 - Project Area Showing Treatment Schedule
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Table 3 - FY 2010 Implementation Details
Treatment
Fuelbreak
Fuelbreak
Fuelbreak
Fuelbreak Total
Group Selection
Group Selection
Group Selection
Group Selection
Total
Implementation
Method
Timber Sale
Timber Sale
Timber Sale
Timber Sale
Timber Sale
Timber Sale
Planned
Implementation Acres
2010
15
2010
19
2010
18
52
2010
97
2010
91
2010
29
Total
Harvest
Volume
(CCF)
195.00
161.45
247.00
603.45
511.55
492.00
145.00
Total Cost
$7,335.90
$6,073.75
$9,292.14
$22,701.79
$19,244.51
$18,509.04
$5,454.90
217
1148.55
$43,208.45
269
269
1752.00
1752.00
$65,910.24
$65,910.24
Timber Sale
Total
2010 Total
REFERENCE
Underhill, Jeff. 2005. Development of a Vegetation Management Project Proposal on the Alma
Taylor Plateau. Vernal, UT: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ashley National
Forest.
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2. Ecological Context
The purpose of this project is to insure continued aspen regeneration and structural diversity
in lodgepole pine to benefit mule deer populations, restore critical moose winter range, and
also to improve northern goshawk foraging, nesting habitat.
Currently there is a decline of aspen in the proposed project area; this decline is estimated at
24.6% (Underhill, 2005). This estimated loss of aspen is considered a conservative estimate.
An earlier study (O’Brien and Tymcio, 1997) estimated a 69% decline of aspen on the
Ashley National Forest from the historic aspen dominated area of 322,532 to 101,358 acres.
The age of the Alma Taylor aspen communities are also a concern, aspen clones that
regenerated pursuant to the last major disturbance of the 1900-1910 fires may be reaching
high risk levels in all community types. The seral community is rapidly approaching a
condition where both factors, the age of the clones and conifer encroachment, are threatening
the persistence of this community. These communities may be lost permanently from the
landscape once the disturbance / suckering reproduction cycle is disrupted beyond the
community’s ability to repopulate an area. As conifer encroachment becomes more
prominent, the ability of these stands to produce an adequate density of suckers becomes
more limited. Once disturbance cycles exceed the frequency for the Alma Taylor plateau of
50 to 150 years, the ability of these aspen communities to persist is doubtful. There is a need
to promote the suckering (restoration) of aspen in seral and climax stands. Table 4 provides
a summary of vegetative cover types.
Currently UDWR and Forest Service biologists are concerned about loss of summer range
habitat for the south slope mule deer herd unit which encompasses Alma Taylor Plateau area.
Mule deer populations on this unit are below the herd objective. Conifer encroachment on
the Alma Taylor Plateau has caused a decrease in grasses, forbs and browse critical for mule
deer. Stagnant “dog-hair” stands on the Alma Taylor Plateau restrict the movement of
ungulates and decrease the habitat for small mammals. Likewise the loss of aspen suckering,
re-sprouting in the project area is reducing the critical winter range habitat for moose.
There is a need to re-establish a mosaic of wildlife opening of across the landscape, increase
aspen sprouting, encourage more grasses/forbs in the forest understory and meadow
openings, and increase the vigor of stagnant stands of dense lodgepole pine. These desired
conditions would directly benefit mule deer and moose as mentioned, but would also provide
important benefits to Northern Goshawk forage and nesting habitat, improve snowshoe hare
and other small mammal habitat.
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Table 4 - Summary of Vegetative Cover
VEGETATION TYPE ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION
ACRES
Artemisia tridentata (ARTRP)
84.2
Artemisia tridentata/Stipa comata
(ARTRP/STCO)
661.5
MIXED CONIFEROUS FOREST
249.5
Pinus contorta/Carex rossii (PICO/CARO)
7980.8
%
0.70%
5.80%
2.20%
69.80%
Populus tremuloides/Juniperus communis/Carex
geyeri (POTR/JUCO/CAGE)
712.6
6.20%
Populus tremuloides/Symphoricarpos oreophilus/
Carex geyeri (POTR/SYOR/CAGE)
451.4
3.90%
1099.9
9.60%
191.4
11431.4
1.70%
100.00%
Populus tremuloides-Pinus contorta/Juniperus
communis (POTR-PICO/JUCO)
WET OR MOIST UNDERSTORY Calamagrostis canadensis (CALE),Caltha
leptosepala (CACA)
In those areas where the trees are in the immature growth stages, a reduction in tree density is
needed to enable tree release and development into more vigorous stands that will be less
susceptible to insect and disease problems. Increased diameter and height growth are also
important for a variety of functional needs, such as habitat of goshawk and other older
growth dependent species, if present in the area. Large diameter trees in general provide a
more pleasing aesthetic and recreational condition, especially when most of the surrounding
stands are smaller diameter and dense, resulting in poor visibility and accessibility.
Additionally there is a need for reducing the overall fuel loading in the project area to better
assist fire suppression efforts and increase the margin of safety to fire fighters and the public.
By helping break up the fuel loadings and creating structural diversity in dense lodgepole
stands, the risk of large high intensity fire and stand replacement is reduced. In avoiding this
outcome, down stream municipal watershed values are better protected. Fuel breaks are
needed to assist in containing prescribed fire within planned burn blocks. They also provide
control lines for future possible wildland fires.
REFERENCES
O’Brien, R. A. and Tymcio, R. P. 1997. Forest resources of the Ashley National Forest.
Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station.
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Underhill, Jeff. 2005. Development of a Vegetation Management Project Proposal on the Alma
Taylor Plateau. Vernal, UT: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ashley National
Forest.
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3. Collaboration
There has been a history of collaboration between the Forest Service and UDWR to manage
the Alma Taylor Plateau to improve big game habitat. This collaboration goes back to 1986
when the Forest Service and the UDWR participated in a the Alma Taylor Plateau Project,
using mechanical treatments and burning to replace stagnated stands of lodgepole to improve
forage/cover ratio, increase vegetative diversity for wildlife habitat. For Phase 1 (1987-1988)
of this earlier project 597 acres of stagnated lodgepole pine stands were pushed over with a
bulldozer and burned. For Phase II (1989-1996) of the project 298 acres were clearcut.
More recently, the Utah Partners for Conservation Development (UPCD) have participated in
the Alma Taylor Vegetation Management Project by providing funding for implementation.
They provided $65,950 in FY 2009 to cover half of the anticipated cost of fuelbreak
construction on 302 acres.
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4. Wildfire
The lodgepole pine cover type on Alma Taylor Plateau is consistent with the Fire Group 8
classification (Bradley et al., 1992). Lodgepole pine is a persistent seral or a climax species
in this area. Lodgepole is maintained by a cycle of fires and reproduction from serotinous
cone seed crops. Density related mortality or mountain pine beetle infestations have caused a
buildup of ground fuels in some locations. The lodgepole pine cover type on the Alma
Taylor Plateau can be classified as Fire Regime 4.
The aspen cover type on Alma Taylor Plateau is consistent with the Fire Group 7
classification (Bradley et al., 1992). Aspen is a seral species in most of the project area. The
exclusion of wildfire in these areas has led to various degrees of conifer encroachment. The
aspen cover type in the project is classified as Fire Regime 4, and Fire Regime 3 in some
areas. Fire return intervals of 50 to 150 years are considered appropriate for maintaining
aspen in this area. Longer return intervals will favor lodgepole pine and other conifers. This
project includes mechanically removing encroaching conifers and/or burning areas of
encroaching conifer to maintain seral aspen. Maintaining seral aspen stands in the project
area will promote vegetative diversity in the area as well as lowering the threat of large scale,
high intensity wildfires on the Alma Taylor Plateau; this will encourage effective future
wildfire suppression efforts, reduce suppression cost, and promote fire fighter safety.
Many of the treatment areas in the project were identified as or approaching Condition Class
2. Condition Class 2 situations develop as one or more fire return intervals are missed,
primarily due to well-intentioned suppression efforts, while under-story vegetation continues
to grow, becoming denser. If this accumulating vegetation is not treated, fires begin to burn
more intense - making them more difficult to suppress, and with more severe effects. The
impact of fires to biodiversity, soil productivity and water quality become more pronounced.
REFERENCE
Bradley, A. F., N. V. Noste, and W.C. Fischer. 1992. Fire Ecology of Forest and Woodlands in
Utah. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report INT -287, pp 79-89.
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5. Utilization
The estimated volume expected to be harvested in the Alma Taylor Vegetation Management
Project is 16,543 CCF. Most of this volume consists of small, low-value lodgepole pine.
There is a small amount of sawtimber size material, but the majority of the volume expected
from this project is product other than logs (POL). There is a limited, but stable local market
for this material. It is used primarily for post, poles for fencing, and other specialty products.
Table 5 summarizes the acres, volume, and value of material to be harvested by year.
Table 5 - Tentative Harvest Schedule
Planned
Implementation
2008 Total
2009 Total
2010 Total
2011 Total
2012 Total
2013 Total
Total
Acres
111
129
269
584
390
486
1969
Total Harvest
Volume (CCF)
1769.34
1153.85
1752.00
3791.77
4547.49
3528.15
16542.60
Value of
Harvest
Volume
$7,077.36
$4,615.40
$7,008.00
$15,167.08
$18,189.96
$14,112.60
$66,170.40
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6. Investments
There has already been a significant federal investment in the Alma Taylor Vegetation
Management Project already. The total federal investment for FY 2008 and FY2009 was
over $300,000. There has also been a partnership investment (UPCD) of $67,950. Table 6
summarizes project implementation cost to date.
Table 6 -Current Investments
Current Investments
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
3. Partnership Funds
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 20XX Total
FY 20XX CFLRP request
Total
FY 2008
$56,578
$9,984
$0
$0
$7,077
$0
$73,640
$0
$73,640
FY 2009
Total
$229,947 $286,525
$6,511 $16,496
$67,950 $67,950
$0
$0
$4,615 $11,693
$0
$0
$309,023 $382,663
$0
$0
$309,023 $382,663
The anticipated additional investment required to fully implement the projected is expected
to be over $740,000. This investment includes appropriated funds, partnership funds, and the
proposed CLFRP or similar restoration funds. Table 7 summarizes the anticipated
investment required for project completion.
Table 7 - Anticipated Investments
Anticipated Investments
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
3. Partnership Funds
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 20XX Total
FY 20XX CFLRP request
Total
FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014
$28,012 $60,625 $74,840 $56,410
$0
$4,943 $10,698 $10,698
$9,955
$0
$0 $16,315
$0 $22,313 $76,563
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$7,008 $15,167 $18,190 $14,113
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$39,963 $102,805 $103,728 $102,790 $76,563
$32,955 $87,638 $85,538 $88,677 $76,563
$72,918 $190,443 $189,267 $191,467 $153,125
Total
$219,886
$36,295
$115,190
$0
$54,478
$0
$425,849
$371,371
$797,220
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The restoration capacity will be increase with CLFRP funds; the funds will allow the project
to be implemented sooner than could be done without these funds. Restoration unit cost
should decrease via economies of scale. Qualitatively, employment opportunities will
increase; quantitative increases are difficult to predict, and are dependent to some extent on
the strength of the local wood products market. Most employment opportunities are
anticipated to be local based on the historic utilization of the small, low-value wood products
associated with the project.
Increased employment opportunities for youth groups are a real possibility. Youth
Conservation Corp members have been used in the past to perform some project preparation
work. This practice could continue, as well as increasing the number of Forest Service
seasonal employees to complete the project in a more timely approach.
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7. Funding Estimate
A. Fiscal Year 2010
The funding need for Fiscal Year 2010 is $65,910. This funding will be used to
implement timber sales on 269 acres, with an anticipated volume of 1,752 CCF and an
estimated value of $7,008. Additional funding information for Fiscal Year 2010 is given
in Table 8.
Table 8- Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2010
Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2010
Funds to be used on NFS lands for ecological restoration treatments and monitoring that would be
available in FY 2010 to match funding from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund
Fiscal Year 2010 Funding Type
Dollars/Value Planned
FY 2010 Funding for Implementation
FY 2010 Funding for Monitoring
$58,429.43
$7,480.81
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
3. Partnership Funds
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 2010 Total (total of 1-6 above for matching CFLRP request)
FY 2010 CFLRP request (must be equal to or less than above total)
$28,011.85
$4,943.27
$0.00
$0.00
$7,008.00
$0.00
$39,963.12
$32,955.12
Funding off NFS lands associated with proposal in FY 2010 (does not count toward funding match
from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund)
Fiscal Year 2010 Funding Type
USDI BLM Funds
USDI (other) Funds
Other Public Funding
Private Funding
Dollars Planned
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
B. Fiscal Year 2011
The funding need for Fiscal Year 2011 is $175,276. This funding will be used to
implement timber sales on 584 acres, with an anticipated volume of 3,792 CCF and an
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estimated value of $15,167. The funds will also be used to prescribe burn 502 acres.
Additional funding information for Fiscal Year 2011 is given in Table 9.
Table 9 - Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2011
Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2011
Funds to be used on NFS lands for ecological restoration treatments and monitoring that would be
available in FY 2011 to match funding from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund
Fiscal Year 2011 Funding Type
FY 2011 Funding for Implementation
FY 2011 Funding for Monitoring
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
*
3. Partnership Funds
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 2011 Total (total of 1-6 above for matching CFLRP request)
FY 2011 CFLRP request (must be equal to or less than above total)
Dollars/Value Planned
$159,086.02
$16,190.36
$60,624.71
$10,698.48
$16,315.00
$0.00
$15,167.08
$0.00
$102,805.27
$87,638.19
Funding off NFS lands associated with proposal in FY 2011 (does not count toward funding match
from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund)
Fiscal Year 2011 Funding Type
USDI BLM Funds
USDI (other) Funds
Other Public Funding
Private Funding
Dollars Planned
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
* Anticipated Utah Partners For Conservation Development
funding (50% of cost of fuels treatment base on 2009 Funding).
C. Fiscal Year 2012
The funding need for Fiscal Year 2012 is $171,077. This funding will be used to
implement timber sales on 390 acres, with an anticipated volume of 4,547 CCF and an
estimated value of $18,190. Additional funding information for Fiscal Year 2012 is
given in Table 10.
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Table 10 - Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2012
Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2012
Funds to be used on NFS lands for ecological restoration treatments and monitoring that would be
available in FY 2012 to match funding from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund
Fiscal Year 2012 Funding Type
Dollars/Value Planned
FY 2012 Funding for Implementation
FY 2012 Funding for Monitoring
$151,659.38
$19,417.19
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
3. Partnership Funds
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 2012 Total (total of 1-6 above for matching CFLRP request)
FY 2012 CFLRP request (must be equal to or less than above total)
$74,839.81
$10,698.48
$0.00
$0.00
$18,189.96
$0.00
$103,728.25
$85,538.29
Funding off NFS lands associated with proposal in FY 2012 (does not count toward funding match
from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund)
Fiscal Year 2012 Funding Type
USDI BLM Funds
USDI (other) Funds
Other Public Funding
Private Funding
Dollars Planned
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
D. Fiscal Year 2013
The funding need for Fiscal Year 2013 is $177,354. This funding will be used to
implement timber sales on 486 acres, with an anticipated volume of 3,528 CCF and an
estimated value of $14,113. The funds will also be used to prescribe burn 357 acres.
Additional funding information for Fiscal Year 2011 is given in Table 11.
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Table 11 - Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2013
Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2013
Funds to be used on NFS lands for ecological restoration treatments and monitoring that would be
available in FY 2013 to match funding from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund
Fiscal Year 2013 Funding Type
FY 2013 Funding for Implementation
FY 2013 Funding for Monitoring
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
*
3. Partnership Funds
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 2013 Total (total of 1-6 above for matching CFLRP request)
FY 2013 CFLRP request (must be equal to or less than above total)
Dollars/Value Planned
$162,289.26
$15,064.74
$56,409.83
$9,954.68
$22,312.50
$0.00
$14,112.60
$0.00
$102,789.60
$88,677.00
Funding off NFS lands associated with proposal in FY 2013 (does not count toward funding match
from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund)
Fiscal Year 2013 Funding Type
USDI BLM Funds
USDI (other) Funds
Other Public Funding
Private Funding
Dollars Planned
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
* Anticipated Utah Partners For Conservation Development
funding (50% of cost of fuels treatment base on 2009 Funding).
E. Fiscal Year 2014
The funding need for Fiscal Year 2014 is $153,124. This funding will be used to
prescribe burn up to 1,225 acres. Additional funding information for Fiscal Year 2011 is
given in Table 12.
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Table 12 – Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2013
Funding Estimate for Fiscal Year 2014
Funds to be used on NFS lands for ecological restoration treatments and monitoring that would be
available in FY 2014 to match funding from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund
Fiscal Year 2014 Funding Type
FY 2014 Funding for Implementation
FY 2014 Funding for Monitoring
1. USFS Appropriated Funds
2. USFS Permanent & Trust Funds
Dollars/Value Planned
$135,745.31
$17,379.69
3. Partnership Funds
$0.00
$0.00
$76,562.50
4. Partnership In-Kind Services Value
5. Estimated Forest Product Value
6. Other (specify)
FY 2014 Total (total of 1-6 above for matching CFLRP request)
FY 2014 CFLRP request (must be equal to or less than above total)
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$76,562.50
$76,562.50
*
Funding off NFS lands associated with proposal in FY 2014 (does not count toward funding match
from the Collaborative Forested Landscape Restoration Fund)
Fiscal Year 2014 Funding Type
USDI BLM Funds
USDI (other) Funds
Other Public Funding
Private Funding
* Anticipated Utah Partners For Conservation Development
funding (50% of cost of fuels treatment base on 2009 Funding).
Dollars Planned
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Funding Plan - 1
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Proposal
Alma Taylor Vegetation Management Project
Funding Plan
8. Funding Plan
Forest Service funding for implementation of this project to date includes funds from the
NFTM, SSSS, and WFHF budget line items. Fiscal year 2010 funding includes NFTM and
SSSS funds; CFLRP funds would be used to augment these funds in the current fiscal year.
CFLRP funds allocated in fiscal 2010 and fiscal year 2011 would be used on ecological
restoration treatments in the same year CFLRP funds are transferred.
Landscape Strategy - 1
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Proposal
Alma Taylor Vegetation Management Project
Landscape Strategy
12.Landscape Strategy
In the spring of 2005 the Forest completed a Rapid Assessment to identify priority
watersheds where future integrated restoration treatments requiring staffing and funding
could be emphasized. The Dry Fork and Upper Ashley Creek sub-watersheds were identified
as one of the top three areas on the Forest requiring integrated restoration treatments. These
sub-watersheds total 37,538 acres, including 24,670 acres on the Forest. The Alma Taylor
Plateau is included in these sub-watersheds.
Desired conditions identified in the Rapid Assessment for the Dry Fork and Upper Ashley
Creek sub-watersheds included no net loss of the aspen vegetation component and an
increase in wildlife forage habitat. Additionally it was noted fuels treatments on the plateau
would assist in helping protect the Dry Fork Municipal Watershed.